Diabetic glomerular changes

Definition

Diabetic glomerulosclerosis involves diffuse thickening of the basement membrane progressing to diffuse mesangial expansion (diffuse diabetic glomerulosclerosis) with in some cases matrix occupying the capillary lumen to form Kimmelstiel Wilson nodules (nodular glomerulosclerosis)

Also indexed as

Nearby in Clinical findings in specimens from the urinary system

• MF80Diffuse mesangial sclerosis
• MF81Fibronectin glomerulopathy
• MF82Lipoprotein glomerulopathy
• MF84Pauci-immune proliferative glomerulonephritis
• MF85Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody mediated disease
• 4B4YOther specified diseases of the immune system
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified